Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled by the mission bells of Santa Barbara. Anything can happen in fabulous California. What will happen in California on Nov. 6 is an enormous question mark placed at the end of a tense and terrible political campaign which will reach its climax on Election Day. Not only will...
...five biggest stars of the screen within a year," it was surprising to learn that their discovery was Josephine Hutchinson. A thin, pretty girl with red dish hair, sherry-colored eyes and a dimpled chin, Josephine Hutchinson had been exposed to the full view of Hollywood scouts for upwards of eight years as leading lady of Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on Manhattan's 14th Street. If her abilities for cinema were so pronounced, it seemed strange that no Hollywood spy had detected them before in her performances as Teresa in The Cradle Song, Mrs. Elvsted...
...only to the grave, but after the will is read. For purposes of keeping up morale and teaching the cardinal truths of life, any large paper could afford to hire, at princely salary, such a man as Gene Fowler . . . or Joel Sayre, a wandering behemoth who went to Hollywood. ... As balloon-prickers, daubers of stuffed shirts and philosophical pranksters such men are worth any dozen efficiency experts. . . ." After he has learned the million-and-one do's and don't's of technique, and "not to ask the city editor how to get to Canarsie." and that...
...several years Trojan football players have been the idols in the eyes of the mercenary population of Hollywood. Rather the Trojans thought they were idols, though actually they were as toys to some henna-haired beauty or to a film magnate. They were wined and dined and made to feel the world was theirs, when they were really just pawns. ... If S. C.'s gridders can forget the false friendship of Hollywood and buckle down to the task of football . . . there is nothing that can stop them from vanquishing Pittsburgh Saturday...
...What Every Woman Knows," is one of those movies that every woman (and man) ought to see. From the play of J. M. Barrie. Hollywood has, with unusually fine taste, brought forth a picture that troubles and embarrasses the spectator only because it is too human, because the pathos and humor strike so near home...